Thea Traff

Erik van Gils prepping for the General Idea show. CreditPhotograph by Lauren Lancaster View full screen

Whether on the runway or the red carpet, menswear has a tough time competing with the spectacle of women’s fashion. Beginning in July, designers of men’s clothing will have a New York Fashion Week all to themselves. This runway season, in the meantime, the photographer Lauren Lancaster shadowed four male models from ReQuest Model Management as they were shuttled from their temporary rental apartment, in Bushwick, to castings, fittings, and shows throughout the city. ​Above are some highlights from the week.

Yiwu International Trade City, also known as China Commodity City, claims to be the world’s largest wholesale market for small commodities. It is located in a vast warehouse in the province of Zhejiang, where tens of thousands of stalls sell everything from artificial flowers to inflatable pools.

Residents take part in a group psychotherapy session. CreditPhotograph by Fernando Moleres / Panos View full screen

In 2008, China became the first nation to declare Internet addiction a clinical disorder. Recently, the Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres spent three days documenting patients at an Internet-addiction treatment center outside of Beijing.

“La Niña de la Danza.” Jary, who is nine years old, walks with Trujillo in the procession to the town’s center. CreditPhotograph by Joaquin Trujillo View full screen

Earlier this month, the New York-based photographer Joaquin Trujillo posted to the New Yorker photo department’s Instagram feed from the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of La Feria Patronale de Ermita, the annual patronage festival in his home town of Ermita de Guadalupe, in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico. The four-day festival, which derives from Spanish and Mesoamerican traditions, honors the town’s patron saint, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and consists of dances, historical reënactments, and traditional food.

Last Friday, Landon Nordeman photographed the opening of “John Waters: Beverly Hills John” at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, in Chelsea. The assembled onlookers were as idiosyncratic as Waters’s art works. Nordeman told me that the crowd resembled “living examples of Waters’s wry, creative expression—it was as though everyone there had come to audition for a role in his next film.”

This week, the Brooklyn-based photographer Nadia Sablin received the 2014 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for her series “Aunties,” an exploration of the daily lives of her father’s two unmarried sisters, who live together in their childhood home, in Alekhovshchina, Russia, five hours north of St. Petersburg. Sablin, who was born in what was then Leningrad and moved to the United States as a child, has visited her aunts—Alevtina and Ludmila—the past seven summers, documenting their self-sustaining, highly regimented daily routine. Alevtina cooks the day’s meals in the early morning, and Ludmila sews their clothes; together they maintain their house, which was built by their father in the early nineteen-hundreds. “My communication with them isn’t verbal,” Sablin told me. “I understand them by watching what they do.”

A long jumper in the eighty-to-eight-four-year-old division. Riccione, Italy, 2007. CreditPhotograph by Angela Jimenez View full screen

“Racing Age,” an exhibit currently at United Photo Industries, in Dumbo, offers a look at elderly track-and-field athletes. From 2007 to 2009, Angela Jimenez, a former track athlete herself, photographed competitors older than seventy in meets across the United States and Italy. Jimenez told me that it was the fierceness of the competition that surprised her the most.

The portraits and still-lifes by the Hungarian photographer Andi Gáldi Vinkó ​have gained international recognition in recent years, including an exhibition at this year’s Photoville, in New York. Her latest project, titled “Paradisco,” is a series of what she calls “sociological portraits” taken in the last five years. In a recent article in the magazine Photograph, Elisabeth Biondi, a former director of photography at The New Yorker, wrote of the project, “It captures the underlying quest in her photographic pursuits–to record the general unease experienced by people of her generation as well as their pleasures and joys.”

In 2006, the Los Angeles-based photographer Siri Kaur encountered a Superman impersonator while walking down Hollywood Boulevard. She spoke with him at length and became fascinated by his line of work. In the years that followed, Kaur donned a Wonder Woman costume and immersed herself in the community, scouring Los Angeles and travelling to impersonator conventions in Las Vegas to photograph characters. She completed her resulting series, titled “This Kind of Face,” earlier this year.

Throughout the Communist era, convicts in the Soviet prison system cultivated a visual language through tattoo art. Their markings, which were often applied by fellow inmates using an adapted electric shaver, were intended to communicate social standing, tastes, and interests to fellow criminals.